The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2003
Salvadore D'alo, Rome, IT;
Alessandro Donatelli, Rome, IT;
Giovanni Lanfranchi, Placenza, IT;
Claudio Marinelli, Latina, IT;
Salvadore D'Alo, Rome, IT;
Alessandro Donatelli, Rome, IT;
Giovanni Lanfranchi, Placenza, IT;
Claudio Marinelli, Latina, IT;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A resource management method () and a corresponding system are proposed. In the solution of the invention, an authority publishes () multiple rules, each one defining a desired target configuration for a category of subjects (without any information about their dependencies). Each subject retrieves () the rules corresponding to its category in a random order. The rules are then applied () on the subject according to a trial-and-fail approach. Particularly, the application of any failed rule is continually repeated (), until all the rules are successfully applied () or a deadlock condition is detected (). In this way, any dependency is automatically resolved on the subject at run time. Moreover, as soon as all the rules have been successfully applied the compliance of the subject to the rules is verified () again; should the subject be not compliant to one or more rules any longer, an infinite loop condition is detected ().